{"id":8745,"date":"2012-03-09T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-white-rejects-england-approach-to-stay-with-brumbies\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:01:32","slug":"rugby-white-rejects-england-approach-to-stay-with-brumbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-white-rejects-england-approach-to-stay-with-brumbies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-White rejects England approach to stay with Brumbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; World Cup-winning coach Jake White<br \/>\nhas turned down the chance to apply for the vacant England job,<br \/>\nsaying on Friday he was committed to Super Rugby franchise ACT<br \/>\nBrumbies.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brumbies had released a statement on Thursday revealing that<br \/>\nWhite, who coached South Africa to victory in the 2007 World<br \/>\nCup, had been approached by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) as it<br \/>\nseeks to find a permanent replacement for Martin Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked at a news conference in Canberra on Friday whether he<br \/>\nwas interested in the post, the 48-year-old South African<br \/>\nreplied: &#8220;No, no, no, no.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here for four years with the Brumbies. I&#8217;ve signed on<br \/>\nthe bottom line and you&#8217;ve got to judge people by their actions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s changed &#8211; I&#8217;m still committed to the Brumbies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>White, who took over at the Brumbies last July, said there<br \/>\nwas nothing wrong with having expressed an interest in the role<br \/>\nand did not rule out a move in the future.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;d look at &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t mean now, it<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t mean leaving my job,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England are currently being overseen by caretaker coach<br \/>\nStuart Lancaster, who took over after Johnson&#8217;s resignation<br \/>\nfollowing last year&#8217;s troubled World Cup campaign in New<br \/>\nZealand. \t<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Sonia Oxley; Editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World Cup-winning coach Jake White has turned down the chance to apply for the vacant England job, saying on Friday he was committed to Super Rugby franchise ACT Brumbies. Brumbies had released a statement on Thursday revealing that White, who coached South Africa to victory in the 2007 World Cup, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}